Wikipedia Game?

Shout to ijjji putting this up

This is a taste of the above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial_charm

Contemporary interest in superficial charm goes back to Hervey M. Cleckley‘s classic study (1941) of the sociopath: since his work it has become widely accepted that the sociopath/psychopath was characterised by superficial charm and a disregard for other people’s feelings.[5] According to Hare, “Psychopathic charm is not in the least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything.”[6]

Subsequent studies have refined, but not perhaps fundamentally altered, Cleckley’s initial assessment. In the latest diagnostic review, Cleckley’s mix of intelligence and superficial charm has been redefined to reflect a more deviant demeanour, talkative, slick, and insincere.[7] A distinction can also be drawn between a subtle, self-effacing kind of sociopathic charm,[8] and a more expansive, exhilarating spontaneity which serves to give the sociopath a sort of animal magnetism.[9]

There’s some fairly good game on this forum, but you gotta dig for it.

-Archie

5 thoughts on “Wikipedia Game?”

    1. 1) Just really bad game all around.
      It’s hard to know where to start, but someone drank way too much red pill Koolaid.

      2) I would have fell for that too. It looked like a lay up, until it wasn’t.
      The thing that sticks out to me – was that this scenario she’d been in before.
      Dashing guy, says all the right things, makes all the right moves, and she plays her part.

      So unless you were to take her someplace that she wasn’t familiar with, behave in a way that she liked but hadn’t seen before – you were basically stuck in her world.

      In terms of Rom Com – the way to Meg Ryan that chick was to involve a 3rd party.

      “See that man at the bar, tell me about him”
      “How much money does he have?”
      “Go get us some drinks”

      Or

      “See that couple…
      …
      “Go find out if this is their first date”

      I’m not even sure if that would work – in terms of getting to the end goal of same night lay – but my experience tells me with operators – you have to do something entirely different than what they expect.

  2. Archie

    Have you read Cleckley’s “Mask of Sanity?” It completely bears out the superficial charm bit. Skip the analysis and go straight to the case studies. The crazy shit these sociopaths get away with through force of personality alone amazing.

    One dude named Max, convinced the people in the mental hospital he was a great artist all as a pretext for getting out of there and getting at some whiskey:

    “Now, for a short while, he was more agreeably disposed. Boastfully he told me that he was, in addition to all his other parts, an artist of remarkable ability. He asked to be given a loaf of bread, stating that he would mold from it creations of great beauty and worth. 0n getting the bread, he broke off a large chunk, placed it in his mouth, and began to chew it assiduously, apparently relishing the confusion of his observers. After proceeding for a length of time and with thoroughness that once would have met with favor from advocates of the now almost forgotten cult of Fletcherism, he at last
    disgorged the mess from his mouth and with considerable dexterity set about modeling it into the figure of a cross. Soon a human form was added in the customary representation. Rosettes, intertwining leaves, garlands, and an elaborate pedestal followed. The mixture of saliva and chewed bread rapidly hardened.

    He now requested a pass to go into town, saying that he must obtain shellac and appropriate paints to complete his creation. He made it plain that he was molding this statuette for me, and it was clear that he regarded it as a most flattering favor.

    Since it was judged unwise to send him out alone, he was
    allowed to go in company of an attendant. He returned with his materials but also with the strong odor of whiskey on his breath. ”

    This force of personality stuff, working as it does for outlandish claims, is the stuff of seduction as well.

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